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OPINION

Newark gentry should not stand in way of jobs

WIL
Published 11:23 p.m. ET Dec. 5, 2013

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Sherdonald Gude, a member of the Iron Workers Local 451 union, holds up a sign in the middle of S. College Ave. in support of the Data Center on the University of Delaware STAR Campus as he rallies with other union members in Newark on Monday evening, November 25, 2013.(Photo: KYLE GRANTHAM/THE NEWS JOURNAL)Buy Photo

I have read and listened to the Newark gentry bellowing their opposition to the Data Center project. They are classic "Not in my backyard" protesters. This project will provide needed jobs for our unemployed union and nonunion crafts. The fact that they are using inexpensive natural gas from an American source is the icing on the project. Noise will be at a minimum and will be pleasantly tolerated knowing Delawareans are working. Naysayers will bellow and squeal but as the Bard had said, "I think they protest too much!"